Center Township v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1952
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is claimed by plaintiff that the tax is void because said bonds are void, and that said bonds are void because issued in excess of ten per cent, of ‘the taxable property of said Center township’ . . . Now suppose they are invalid, still the plaintiff has no right to enjoin the tax levied upon the taxable property of the various individuals of the township to pay the interest on them. . . . But the law of this state is such that the public cannot sue merely for the protection of private rights. . . . Public rights and private rights, public actions and private actions, are kept separate; and no action can be brought except by the party having a special interest in the result. . . . An action cannot be brought merely for the benefit of an individual in the name of the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.